Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Daley Thompson

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

Claude Monet

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Dan Pallotta

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

Dan Miller

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

Coventry Patmore

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.

Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Orson Scott Card

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Katherine Anne Porter

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

Karen Allen

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.